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Polaroid Lovers Try To Revive Its Instant Film
Maximum Prophet nods a NY Times piece on a Dutch group living the retro dream: they are trying to bring back Polaroid film. This group has the machinery to make the film packs, but needs to recreate the chemicals. Polaroid Inc. stopping making the specialized chemicals years ago, after having stockpiled what they would need for their last production runs. "They want to recast an outdated production process in an abandoned Polaroid factory for an age that has fallen for digital pictures because they think people still have room in their hearts for retro photography that eschews airbrushing or Photoshop. 'This project is about building a very interesting business to last for at least another decade,' said Florian Kaps, the Austrian entrepreneur behind the effort [in Enschede, The Netherlands]. 'It is about the importance of analog aspects in a more and more digital world. ... If everyone runs in one direction [i.e. digital photography], it creates a niche market in the other.'"
Polaroid Inc. stopping making
Does this clown even read the shit he posts?
If I had to choose how I wanted to present photographic evidence, I'd take a polaroid. I've seen many of them in my time, but have never been able to tell a fake one by the pixels.
also, keep in mind that you may need a physical photograph that is instantly available in case you need to write something important on it that you might forget because you have a memory condition.
Did i tell you about my memory condition?
Do you also have many tattoos, telling you about important information?
Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
Wow, I knew companies were quick to bring new products to market, but 3 minutes later and it's already available on amazon?
Polaroid, color me impressed!
"Don't trust the skull."
On a side note, my uncle is a comedian and one day we set up some Barbie porn using my sister's dolls. We forgot to mention to my mother (whose camera we used) what was on that roll. She got a very odd look from the guy at Wolf camera when she went in to pick her pictures up. My uncle's comment was "Good thing your sister didn't have Barbie's dream horse..."
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Did i tell you about my memory condition?
My grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and cancer. Upon receiving this news he said "Well, at least it's not cancer!"
He could have some kind of memento to remind him.
Yeah, cos my mentioning that he might have it tattooed on him indicates that I have no understanding of the joke here....
This guy's the limit!
Saw at bar.
One guy dressed up as Pinocchio, was really well done.
His buddy dressed up as the guy from Memento with a short sleeved white shirt, and black maker tattoos all over his arms and what you could see of his chest.
In the front shirt pocket of his shirt was a photo of his buddy dressed up at Pinocchio.
On the back he had written: "Don't believe his lies!"
Fscking Brilliant! :)
Not to mention the shovel required to clean up the horse's carbon output.
Half the north-american continent covered with ice. THOSE were the days. No having to refill the ice-cube trays, you wanted a scotch on the rocks you stuck your fist out the door and picked up the "rocks".
It's rather disingenuous to demand things "as it once was" without remembering that "as it once was" isn't how it always was, even before we got here.
Now get off my damn lawn...
Or we could just drink it. We wouldn't know which was more efficient but we'd argue about it as if we did.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Well, it is Polaroid, after all, so they didn't have to wait for any developments before bringing out the product.
That 90 day password rotation policy is going to be a bitch...